“Lively Hood” marks the gritty comeback of DOOMSTARKS, the elusive superduo project of DOOM and Ghostface Killah. While it appears the joint cut is a one-off release, in a Reddit AMA late last year, Ghostface had suggested a forthcoming DOOMSTARKS album would finally see the light of day in 2015. This past July, Jason DeMarco, who oversees all things Adult Swim music, seemed to confirm this, too; speaking about the inclusion of “Lively Hood” in the 2015 Singles series, he said:

“We reached out to DOOM to see if he was interested in giving us a track, and were told that the DOOMSTARKS project was close to completion and there was a song we could have… we jumped on it! I mean, it’s Ghost and DOOM rapping together. It’s pretty much my rap nerd dreams coming true.”